Electronic Navigation Chart View Engine

SFA developed the Electronic Navigation Chart View (ENCView) as an engine that can be integrated into maritime applications (such as voyage planning, monitoring, and navigation) that are required to render marine Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC). ENCView meets the International Hydrographic Office S-57 Data Transfer Standard, S-52 Presentation Standard, and S-63 Data Protection Standard. ENCView is an ENC vector data visualization and spatial query system which displays S-57 chart data from a variety of international electronic charting providers including NOAA and PRIMAR. The engine is provided as a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating system environments.

Track Management System Track Injection Software

SFA developed the Track Management System Injection Software (TMS-IS) as a Common Operating Environment (COE) segment that provides system integrators with a solution for interfacing and injecting track information from RICS-compliant sensors into the COE track database management system. Radar and other sensors that do not support the RICS protocol can also utilize the TMS-IS capabilities by using SSR Engineering's Personal Computing Radar Processor (PCRP) as a bridge between the sensor and the COE-based tactical computer.

PCS-100 Integrated Navigation Simulator

The PCS-100 Integrated Navigation Simulator (INS) was designed for use by the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy in shipboard and shore-based training, testing, and evaluating applications. Using Buffalo Computer Graphics industry-standard simulated radar images and simulation engine, it provides navigation data and radar images compatible with the Coast Guard's Command, Display and Control-Integrated Navigation System (COMDAC-INS) and Surface Search Radar systems. The PCS-100 INS was designed in a joint venture between SFA, SSR Engineering, Buffalo Computer Graphics, and The Skip'r as an upgrade to Buffalo Computer Graphics original PCS-100 Radar Simulator.

eXtensible Communications Automation Framework and Environment

SFA, in collaboration with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and PEO C4I & Space, developed the eXtensible Communications Automation Framework and Environment (XCAFE) to provide a higher-order management and control capability. XCAFE reduces the complexity of managing and configuring complex communications and network equipment and aggregates and displays the status of Naval communications resources. It facilitates improved bandwidth management and increased communications situational awareness to enable many of the Navy's objectives for network-centric warfare.

AN/WSC-3 Radio Ethernet Controller Interface

SFA has developed a new, state-of-the-art Ethernet-based controller interface for AN/WSC-3 Line of Sight and AN/WSC-3 25 KHZ satellite communications (SATCOM) radios. The AN/WSC-3 Radio Ethernet Controller Interface (ECI) gives Naval operators the ability to control and configure the AN/WSC-3 radio remotely, from either a desktop or laptop PC. It provides Ethernet access to the AN/WSC-3 radio through either an external SNMP AN/WSC-3 proxy agent that SFA has developed as optional software, or through a customized application that can be developed using the IP socket interface. With the AN/WSC-3 Radio ECI, communications personnel can configure radio frequency and mode of operation as well as obtain status remotely, from a single location, eliminating the need to have personnel in both Tech Control and at the radio to configure and test AN/WSC-3 circuits. The AN/WSC-3 Radio ECI also has an LCD front panel display to provide fault isolation, status information, and local control capability of the radio and antenna coupler.